Abstract: This paper analyzes the determinants of providing financial support to revolutionaries, using a hand-compiled dataset of 17,000 donations to the Irish National Aid Association after the Easter Rising of 1916. Financial support is best predicted by literacy, marital status, religious affiliation, and relatively high socio-economic status. In this sense, donations to revolutionaries share some characteristics of a luxury good. I find evidence that long-run historical grievances (the Great Famine) also predict support.
Keywords: philanthropy, state formation, political economy, Irish history
JEL classification: D64, H41, N34, P16
Cite this article: Enda Patrick Hargaden, ‘Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland’, Explorations in Economic History, Volume 84, 2022, 101435, ISSN 0014-4983, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101435
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